I can't wait to see what sort of contextual ads Google decides to display with this post!

If this post doesn't have enough poopy humor already, take a look at the screenshot below of a Craigslist ad offering up a one-of-a-kind Magic Poo Machine.  Turns out the poo machine is nothing more than an ordinary bunny rabbit, with a pooper on overdrive.  That is to say, it's an ordinary bunny rabbit.  Gotta admit, the ad is pretty creative and a nice change from the normal poo machine scams you find on Craigslist.

Enjoy the magic poo machine...

And with that I'll disregard my own advice and post just about the dumbest thing I can come up with right now: A how-to guide for making your own kitty compost pile, complete with cats.

Ok, so you've got a bunch of extra cats hanging around and want to turn them into something useful huh? Why not start your own kitty composting pile? The cats will compost eventually, leaving you with rich, clean, cat fortified dirt. Great for putting on the ground or for storing under things! I store cat-dirt under things all the time. And hey, a pile of dirt beats having a bunch of crappy old cats around because dirt doesn't poop like cats do. Not that I've seen anyway.

The first thing you want to do when building your kitty compost pile is mark out an area about 3 feet square. Too small of an area and it won't hold enough cats, too large of an area and your yard will be condemned for illegal toxic fume disbursement and possible environmental hazards. Keep it to less than 381 cats, please!

Once your area is marked off, it's time to start collecting cats. Cat collecting is an interesting hobby in and of itself, but one that's beyond the scope of this post. Suffice it to say, cat collecting seems easier if you're older, single, and have a couple bolts loose upstairs. If this doesn't describe you, find someone it does describe – they're like freakin' cat magnets on crack. Kitty crack no less.

Now remember, the proper ratio for a well fortified compost pile is two dead cats for every live cat. Since cat's have nine lives, the ratio might be 18 to 1 but I'm sure PETA is already a tad bit pissed off so let's stick with the first ratio for now.

When you've determined the proper ratio and collected enough cats, mix them together and stir well. About 10 minutes ought to do the trick. There's not really an electronic blender or something similar that'd work for this part but a shovel or rake will probably do just fine. Experiment if necessary and share your results.

I don't know how long it takes for cats to compost properly and provide you with the highest quality of cat-enriched soil, but it probably takes a heck of a long time. The stupid cat soil better be worth it. It's rumored that you can add dirt on top of the kitty compost pile to speed up the process. Some say this works while others say it draws complaints from both the dead and live cats.

Whatever your method for kitty composting, I bet it sure will feel good to crack open a tall cold one at the end of a long day, take a look at your pile of cat-dirt, and say “Yup, what a good day!”

I found this hobo motor-trike on Craigslist a while back and finally got around to posting the pictures. It has a seat for sitting down and really long handle bars to help it go faster. The instrument panel appears to have been ripped from an old car and the impressive steel frame along with some wooden pallets allows it to double as a mobile home. I want one! I offered to trade beer belly dancing services but the guy wants cash only.

This is passive income at its best so here are the top 100 most effective methods for referring people and earning money in the process.

1. Post on GPT forums. (GPT is short for "Get Paid To")
2. Tell friends and family.
3. Guild members and online friends.
4. Door-hang around neighborhoods.
5. Walk through parking lots putting flyers on cars.
6. Write a blog.
7. Keep your referral link on your Sig. on all forums with a brief explanation.
8. Find chat rooms and groups that have the sole purpose of "Easy Money Making"
9. Write a classified ad.
10. Talk to students at high schools and colleges.
11. Put a flyer up at work.
12. Advertise while you drive with flags, bumper stickers, etc.
13. Post your link at the end of your YouTube videos.
14. Attach a .txt in an RAR file with that you can upload with your referral link.
15. Give flyers for local businesses to hand out.
16. Send out flyers in a mailing list (ex.: http://www.usdatafax.com/)
17. Get a bot/macro to post your link with a simple explanation on any server you may be hosting/running
18. Make a website.
19. Tell people thru IM/PM
20. Link-Exchange
21. Paid advertising on other people's websites
22. Advertise on on-line games.
23 Print business cards and include your phone number to enter into business drawings (like you find in a lot of restaurants)
24. Buy "paid to sign up" at other GPT sites
25. Buy an expired domain with traffic and "redirect" to your referral link ex: www.realstat.info
26. Buy banner space. Impression in high PR forums/groups.
27. Buy text links on blogs/forums/groups
28. Offer cash or other incentives for sign-ups
29. Add your ref. link or website to a filename of an mp3, video, or program and share it over a file-sharing network like Bear Share or a torrent program.
30. Free traffic exchanges
31. Paid traffic exchanges
32. Google Adwords (makes website ads that link to your website or ref. link)
33. Mention that you get paid in US funds
34. Rent a billboard (Approx. $8-$15 per day)
35. Get a tattoo with your referral link on it
36. Go door-to-door and ask in person
37. Add your site/blog to digg, stumble upon, Bumpzee, del.icio.us, etc
38. Have a friend or network digg your site/blog to digg, stumble, etc
39. Get a custom made shirt with advertisement on the front and/or back
40. Radio advertisement for your referral link or website.
41. Set up an info-kiosk in front of your local store or empty lot.
42. Attach your referral link in your email address or sig.
43. Road-side signs & banners
44. Have people sign up through CashCrate in order to play a fun online-game.
45. Optimize your website for excellent search engine ranking.
46. Add regular content to your site or blog. Keep it updated with new info.
47. On your banner/images, use the "alt tag" with either your webpage/blog or "keyword". Search engines can index/spider images, so adding the "alt tag" helps "define" the image!
48. Put a cheap ad in your local penny saver or thrifty nickel in the help wanted or employment section
49. Make a fake wallet out of fabric and put fake money in it with your ref link or website written all over it.
50. www.stormpay.com - For a fee, they will send targeted, unique visitors to your page.
51. Put up an advertisement that says “free money”.
52. Put an E-book up for auction on Ebay with your blog or other website info in it.
53. Before shipping eBay items, put an ad with your ref. link in the box.
54. Send email to all your contacts, and tell them to join with your referral link.
55. Tell people at school
56. *removed* I guess this one is was probably against their terms.
57. Use the dot.tk so you can change your referral link completely.
58. Make a sign to put on a row of shared mailboxes
59. <link is a parked page>
60. Sign up for a virtual business card. www.entrecard.com and list your blog under the money making forum. Once you sign up, visit other money making blogs and drop your card on their site.
61. Build a huge MySpace friends list and dedicate the profile to your blog or website.
62. Place business cards with your referral link in shopping carts.
63. Put up a flyer that has your ref. link with tear off tabs on store bulletin boards.
64. Go to the library and place business cards with referral links in books about financing, debt, home businesses, etc.
65. Place business cards with referral link in public restrooms.
66. Place your referral link on counterstrike.
67. Text your link to all your friends/family.
68. Make a tag to your CashCrate link or your blog.
69. Set your in-game username to a shortened link or your referral link.
70. Hold up a sign on a street corner just like a car wash.
71. Write a song about it
72. Put your URL in your PS3's comment.
73. Point out that this is not a scam such as "free to sign up”, post testimonials, or "doesn't require confidential information such as credit cards, bank account, or social security info.
74. Register to www.getref.com where you can earn referrals.
75. Print off fake/dummy checks and leave them at heavily populated places.
Make it out to Uncle Sam for $23,000, sign it, and just below the dollar amount, put in case this check is found, please visit www.”yourwebsite”.com.
76. The idea is that if you have ever lost Money you can make it back at this website: http://www.ccsinternet.org/lostnfound.gif.
77. Hold a raffle drawing for a cheap product and give out raffle tickets with your ref link or website on it.
78. Advertise on Craigslist
79. Have a pilot write your ref. link in the sky with his plane.
80. Put business cards in the credit card slots at gas stations.
81. Make business card coupons with your website or ref. link and leave at different stores with a Take One – Free sign.
82. Buy a pack of blank CD’s and burn a run file of your website or a notepad file with a copy of your blog or ref link.
83. Print free business cards at Vistaprint.com
84. Get pencils, paper, pens, magnets, etc printed with your link on them and "leave" them lying around. (Free at VistaPrint.com).
85. Start up a free online game site full of free java and flash games and embed your banner into the top of each game.
86. Paint your referral link on your car and go on a road trip across America.
87. Put the link on your msn name.
88. Pass out cards at a trade show.
89. Write your link on the back of a restaurant paper placemat.
90. Threaten people to sign up
91. Tell them if they sign up, and use the forums, they can see a dancing banana!
92. Get a rubber stamp and stamp your ref. link or website on envelopes that you use to mail bills.
93. Offer to help find their first referrals after signing up under you.
94. Write an article.
95. Paint your referral link on the street
96. "Brand" yourself with a familiar name on forums, articles, etc.
97. Reserve a booth at the next festival or fair and set up a wireless laptop for demos.
98. Cross-link your website, blogs, articles, posts, and classifieds.
99. Get custom-made ink-filled shoes with your ref. link embedded on the bottom so everywhere you walk, it acts like a pen and stamps your link everywhere!
100. Open a CashCrate store with your website name or ref. link!

Now that you've got the methods, start putting some extra money in your pocket today!  Stay tuned for more ways to generate extra cash online.

CashCrate is an online system that allows you to cash in by completing free surveys and trial offers in your free time.  I started using them last year and can say this is definitely a great way to earn some extra cash.

I'd also like to dispell any rumors right now - Cashcrate is a legit company with upstanding business practices and timely payments.  They've never missed a payment since I've been with them and there has never been any sort of accounting or other issues.

A nice feature is the ability to filter by offers that are 100% free.  This means you won't have to worry about getting dinged with a recurring fee or being signed up for some extremely expensive "save the endangered poodle fart" organization.  Don't get me wrong, there are some non-free offers that look alright (and they pay extremely well), but having 100% free offers gives some people peace of mind who wouldn't be making money this way otherwise.

Oh yeah, and you can get a free dollar when you sign up so you can literally be making money online in no time at all.  It took me only a few minutes to sign up and start completing the simple little surveys.  Those surveys didn't pay much each, but it's something I can do while watching TV and you'd be surprised how quickly it adds up.

There is a second way to earn money with CashCrate and that is by referring friends, family members, and others to sign up using your referral link.  This idea appeals to me because the effort is only exerted once yet the rewards are received continually over time.  Even if you only refer a few friends, there's no reason not to.  The money can add up.

In conclusion, you won't get rich from getting paid to fill out surveys online, but it is a legitimate way to earn extra income.  If you're in a bind or need some spending money, this is a great option.  Another idea would be to do a little work (say $20 since that is their minimum payout) each month then just invest the money or save it for a rainy day.

Happy money making!

Stinky Hobo's dead dog picked up a new sidekick a couple days ago - Mr. Scrubbs the drunken Persian fighting cat.  He holds six world records and has two Mixed Martial Arts championship titles.  Plus he's a wicked bad drunk.  Stay tuned as I'm sure he'll show up in the Stinky Hobo adventures here soon.

I came across this picture online while researching what the Scottish do in their free time and now I'm more confused than ever.  The claim is that this is the largest bunny rabbit in the world.  Oh, and somebody saw it in a newspaper so it must be true.  If the image is photoshopped, they did a pretty dang good job.  And if it's not, can you imagine cleaning up after this thing?  Good thing we don't have to imagine that, this guy would probably just eat us and be done with it.

Any thoughts on whether or not this is real?

The book contains the beginning of twenty-seven separate novels with the idea that whoever wants to can take each story and turn it into a full-fledged book. You finish the story, send it back to the publisher, and then cross your fingers for a shot at $25,000 in cold hard cash, a wicked bad publishing contract, and a book with your name on it. Oh, and they're putting Carl Reiner's name on there too, if that matters to you or anything.

I think it's very cool that someone like Carl Reiner is putting out an open call for co-authors and this is a nifty way to do it. Sure, maybe it's just another ploy to sell dead trees but it's nice to see someone engage their readers like this. The book is scheduled for release in June 2009 but can be pre-ordered on Amazon now.

Book Details

• Novel Beginnings by Carl Reiner
• Hardcover
• Publisher: Phoenix Books (June 1, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1597776289
• ISBN-13: 978-1597776288

As a side note, when I started writing this post, Novel Beginnings had an Amazon sales rank around #17,000 and the sales rank now stands at #8,378. I guess the orders are pouring in for the book, showing there are tons of aspiring authors out there. It'll be interesting to see how many copies of Carl's book sell versus how many completed novels are actually submitted to the publisher. My guess... purple banana.

If you can't wait until June for Carl's book to come out, here's a beginning to a Stinky Hobo story you can finish. Feel free to post your ending in the comments section. If anyone actually wastes their time doing this, I just might post it on the main page.

Stinky Hobo Beginnings
This morning I woke up taped to the soda machine again. It was like the first time, only they used more tape this time and I think my belly button is stuck. At least the warm fuzzies are still here. I'm not sure what happened last night and am not really sure where I am right now. I'd ask the dead dog but he's passed out in the bathroom in an ungodly taco mess. This is gonna be a long day.

This quick video snippet of Glenn Beck should give you a good idea of just how much the U.S. money supply has increased since the Mother of All Bailouts (MOAB) began in September 2008. It's startling to see how much money has been created out of thin air in the past six months compared to the previous eighty years.

Now, I'm not an expert like George Bush, "Bailout" Ben Bernanke, or even Comrade Obama, but it seems to me this is exactly what a chart would look like for a currency entering the early stages of hyperinflation (anyone got a chart of Zimbabwe's money supply growth?). What better way to escape the financial burden we currently face than to inflate the money supply to the point the debt is worthless? I mean, an $800 billion dollar bailout is a drop in the bucket when trillion dollar bills are more functional as toilet paper than money. Even if hyperinflation and currency destruction isn't the goal, with the trillions of dollars our government is spending at such a blistering pace, a "strong dollar policy" is the last thing they want to pursue. That leaves only one thing... theft of the citizens' wealth by inflating the money supply. That would also be why this post is included in the "Scam Information & Avoidance" category... paper currencies like the U.S. dollar are quite possibly the biggest scam of all time.

(If your "crackpot alarm" just went off, please check the batteries and then send me one dollar. I will send it back in a couple years if it's still worth the postage.)

Happy something or another!

That's where I am right now... watching hot chicks in fast cars living in big houses trying to convince me how easy it is to make money. Sure, I say, but the strip clubs won't hire me after the glowstick incident of '98 so can any of these infomercials actually make me rich instead?

A quick google search brough up an infomercial ratings website that makes it easy to see whether or not an infomercial is worth looking into further. Save yourself time and money by checking out an infomercial through the link above before throwing away your hard earned cash.

Of course, the typical scam alerts apply as well.  Some of these include:

• Any offer showing beautiful women in bikini's, McMansions, sports cars, etc., has a pretty dang good chance of being a scam
• Any offer that guarantees profits is a scam
• Any "get rich quick" offer is a scam
• Mailing your gold or jewelry to any company for cash is a scam
• Getting only one napkin and no sauce packets from the fast food drive-thru is a scam

It may also be interesting to note that the majority of infomercials I checked out at the link above were rated as horrible with most everyone blasting the companies as outright scams.  I was only able to find one infomercial that did not come across as a scam.  That infomercial?  Dean Graziosi's learning the people about real estate millions.  Nice to see not everything on TV is a scam.  I also found it interesting to note that Dean Graziosi's real estate program is rated much higher than Donald Trump's.  I guess his hair piece doesn't have magic powers after all.

Good stuffs!